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07-31-2011 01:45 PM

grandpaws 57

bolt failure

were those bolt from china?

07-25-2011 04:25 PM

Centerline

Quote:

Originally Posted by ringerone

What a scare...glad all is okay health wise. It's been some time...what did the Fatman do for you. I have been looking for a Mustang II front end...and am now considering a Jag front clip instead....this is now the only story I have heard.

Ringerone (Rod)

This thread is 8 years old. Its fine for reference but the problems identified all have a work around to solve them. The Mustang II IFS is an excellent unit if installed correctly and the strut rods are NOT eliminated. Literally 10s of thousands are in use today. Don't sell them short.

"Congress will eventually do the right thing, but first it must exhaust all other possibilities." - Ronald Reagan

07-24-2011 11:59 PM

ringerone

Ringerone sends heads up!

What a scare...glad all is okay health wise. It's been some time...what did the Fatman do for you. I have been looking for a Mustang II front end...and am now considering a Jag front clip instead....this is now the only story I have heard.

No bad mouthing each other or their skills or lack of...in your opinion.

You both have a history with each other......and both are very opinionated..... ..I am too....on some things...

I would not put a Pinto/Mustang II under anything that weighs over 3000 lbs.
But that's me...

Heidit's, the Chubby one and others ALL have had failures....some may have been caused by the kits and some by the installer. Some because the vehicles was too heavy......

I do agree whole heartily that only a fraction of these " kits " even make the highway or any mileage to amount to anything....

DEUCE ........the Moderator...

11-07-2005 06:08 PM

Centerline

Quote:

Originally Posted by redsdad

You know, I worked as a mechanic at a Ford dealership during the late 70's. Every time a Pinto pulled up to the service door, the service manager would grab the fire extinguisher.

I realize Ford spends a lot of money on engineering, but that doesn't make them infallible.

I agree. Just like the GM engineers that put pickup fuel tanks on the outside of the frame rails. Either one Pinto or pickup gets hit in the vulnerable area and Kaboom.

11-07-2005 05:21 PM

redsdad

You know, I worked as a mechanic at a Ford dealership during the late 70's. Every time a Pinto pulled up to the service door, the service manager would grab the fire extinguisher.

I realize Ford spends a lot of money on engineering, but that doesn't make them infallible.

11-07-2005 08:25 AM

Huskinhano

Quote:

Originally Posted by xntrik

Simply just looking at it, it seems obvious to me that the strut rod in tension is much much stronger than any type of strut rod elimation system.

Any other pluses or minuses to the strut system pales in comparison to strength.

I've been following this post for a long time and have kept my $.02 to myself. But I would have to agree with you. I'm not an enginner nor have I installed a MII system. I think though I'm some what with it though. When you look at any LCA on any car, it attaches at 2 seperate and distint locations along the frame rail. This forms a nice, wide base that IMO, would resist deflection, ect. On most of these kit that do away with the strut, it leaves just the cross memeber to handle all of the twisting loads. The cross memeber looks to be about 3". I think when Ford designed this system, they would have done away with the strut from both a manufacturing and finacial reasons...but they didn't. Personally, the only way I'd install a MII system is if it was exactly the way Ford designed it since they have vast engineering and financial sources at their disposal and feel that it's safe for what ever their customers are going to throw at it. I've learned a long time ago not to re-engineer something that someone has already spent a lot of time and money on because it usually come back to bite you in the ***.

10-21-2005 10:38 PM

xntrik

Simply just looking at it, it seems obvious to me that the strut rod in tension is much much stronger than any type of strut rod elimation system.

Any other pluses or minuses to the strut system pales in comparison to strength.

10-12-2005 09:43 PM

Centerline

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phat

I really dont want to do this in public but garys stuff is pretty bad. You dont cut the bottom tube for the lower aframe in 2 than drill a small hole for the lower bolt.Now tack weld a spacer were a stock stang II a-frame goes. Strut rods bind plain and simply. Centerline i have had this problem with you all along(when you started being a moderator for something that you have done twice that bothered me) i have done 50+(maybe more) stang II of all kinds some TCI stuff many clips and tons of race stuff that wins at much tougher extreams than a 100 ,000 mile streetrod.(no i dont want your job LOL)
I also suggest you take a welding coarse as your work is why anything would fail. You plain and simply dont know what your talking about in this subject and that is a shame, but its your deal so goodbye.
Please before you delete this show use how you welded yours into your truck......if i was MVD you would never drive that thing.
Strut rods were never any good nor should they ever be under anything. 4inch of travel they bind plain and simple.
I dont think you can call this flaming as you ripped me a new one for not using SPEEL CHECK and i wont use ti. LOL Take the challange post your welding on your truck!!! Later buddy

The entire build of my truck is available for view by anyone who cares to visit my web site. If the fact that I don't grind my welds when they're in an area that's not going to be seen bothers you that much, all I can say is that's just to damn bad, get over it.

When someone visits my site they can easily see that anyone who wants to can build a street rod from the ground up in their home garage, and they don't need expensive equipment like TIG welders to do it. A simple flux core wire welder is all that is required. One other thing, any idiot knows that flux core wire welds aren't pretty to begin and the only way to make them look good is to grind them. I'm terribly sorry that my welding isn't up to your standards, but I seriously doubt anyone's welding is as good as yours, at least in your mind anyway.

When it comes to strut rods, I most humbly apologize for my opinion on the subject, I didn't realize that you know so much more than all the engineers at Ford who designed the Mustang II suspension. It must be really tough being omnipotent. (If you don't know what that word means maybe you should look it up, providing you can spell a word that has more than four letters in it.)

It also seems very interesting to me that you, with apparently hundreds of years experience installing Mustang II IFS systems, seem to have problems with Heidts kits and someone like me, who has no business even breathing the same air as someone as great as you, seems to have no problems with the installation of these kits at all. Kind of makes you wonder about that, doesn't it.

One last thing, if you want my job as moderator you are more than welcome to it. However, I must warn you that it comes with the burden of putting up with any number of smart a$$es who think they are better than other people. Unfortunately most people of that caliber have problems expressing themselves and can't deal with someone who has an opposing opinion. When a disagreement does arise it generally degenerates very quickly to a personal attack. This usually happens because these individuals have no weapons in their limited vocabularies to adequately respond when challenged, therefore the easiest route is to attempt to degrade the other person. But you already know all this, don't you. Being God's gift to the automotive hobbyist must be a pretty tough job.

Acting as a moderator is a thankless job and we are all volunteers. It doesn't mean we know more than everyone else, we just do our best to assist Jon in keeping the site working properly and occasionally we have to weed out undesirables. So as far as I'm concerned step up to the plate, or do everyone a favor and crawl back in the hole you came out of.

By the way, consider this a warning.... I know you have downloaded pictures from my site in the past and have posted them on other forums. I must warn you that everything on my web site is copyrighted and I will not hesitate to contact the forum administrators and have the pictures deleted from other sites if you do this in the future. Copyright infringement is a crime by the way. But you knew that.... you know everything.

10-12-2005 08:51 PM

jsrail

Well, we'll see how it goes because I plan to put a Fatman's under my 50 Hudson Coupe.......hope I haven't made a bad decision, but the money's been spent! :-)

Jay

10-12-2005 09:41 AM

cornfieldcars

Lighten up Francis! Maybe it's a good thing you're not a "MVD", what ever that is. I did a lot of research on this board and in person with some VERY knowledgable people and they all said the same thing....use the strut rods....period. Even had one person take me out and demonstrate why. I am not an expert, that is why I consult those who are and I don't generally just ask one person. You obviously don't like Centerline's welding either. I would put a lot of money down that his welding is a heck of alot better than your spelling and grammar skills. I'm not trying to start a big fight here, but you seem to have some issues with some people that go beyond strut rods. For what it's worth.

Barry

10-11-2005 10:28 PM

willys36@aol.com

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phat

I really dont want to do this in public but garys stuff is pretty bad. You dont cut the bottom tube for the lower aframe in 2 than drill a small hole for the lower bolt.Now tack weld a spacer were a stock stang II a-frame goes. Strut rods bind plain and simply. Centerline i have had this problem with you all along(when you started being a moderator for something that you have done twice that bothered me) i have done 50+(maybe more) stang II of all kinds some TCI stuff many clips and tons of race stuff that wins at much tougher extreams than a 100 ,000 mile streetrod.(no i dont want your job LOL)
I also suggest you take a welding coarse as your work is why anything would fail. You plain and simply dont know what your talking about in this subject and that is a shame, but its your deal so goodbye.
Please before you delete this show use how you welded yours into your truck......if i was MVD you would never drive that thing.
Strut rods were never any good nor should they ever be under anything. 4inch of travel they bind plain and simple.
I dont think you can call this flaming as you ripped me a new one for not using SPEEL CHECK and i wont use ti. LOL Take the challange post your welding on your truck!!! Later buddy

Anyone know what he just said??

10-11-2005 08:46 PM

Phat

I really dont want to do this in public but garys stuff is pretty bad. You dont cut the bottom tube for the lower aframe in 2 than drill a small hole for the lower bolt.Now tack weld a spacer were a stock stang II a-frame goes. Strut rods bind plain and simply. Centerline i have had this problem with you all along(when you started being a moderator for something that you have done twice that bothered me) i have done 50+(maybe more) stang II of all kinds some TCI stuff many clips and tons of race stuff that wins at much tougher extreams than a 100 ,000 mile streetrod.(no i dont want your job LOL)
I also suggest you take a welding coarse as your work is why anything would fail. You plain and simply dont know what your talking about in this subject and that is a shame, but its your deal so goodbye.
Please before you delete this show use how you welded yours into your truck......if i was MVD you would never drive that thing.
Strut rods were never any good nor should they ever be under anything. 4inch of travel they bind plain and simple.
I dont think you can call this flaming as you ripped me a new one for not using SPEEL CHECK and i wont use ti. LOL Take the challange post your welding on your truck!!! Later buddy

10-11-2005 08:10 PM

Centerline

Quote:

Originally Posted by willys36@aol.com

Again, I'm sure the fit and finish of Heidt's is great. He sells a bunch. My reservation comes in the several photos I have seen of fatigue cracks in his X-member in applications using strut rod eliminators leading to catastrophic failure. I have never heard of or seen a failed stocker so that is the way I go. If you decide to go with the Heidt's please use the strut rods or, if you must go with eliminators, weld in a filler plate @ each lower A-arm as I have shown before.

No argument there. I completely agree that eliminating the strut rods in an aftermarket Mustang II kit (no matter who the manufacturer is) is inadvisable.

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